Israel needs between 1,500 and 2,000 new teachers annually to provide schooling for an estimated 30,000 new school age immigrants entering the Jewish state yearly, Dr. Eliezer Rieger, head of the Department of Education at Hebrew University, reported yesterday at a conference of Merican educators called to consider the present-day problems of education in Israel.The parley was conducted under the auspices of the National Council of Jewish Women.
More than 50 leading educators offered a series of suggestions concerning the development of education in the Jewish state which Dr. Rieger said he would take back with him for guidance in “the great pioneering enterprise” of education in the Jewish state. The Hebrew University official, who was scheduled to return to day to Jerusalem, asserted that he joined the view of President Chaim Weizmann in deploring the present trifurcate system of education to Israel.
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